Healthcare
September 8, 2026
Nafih Cherappurath, Halil İbrahim Ceylan, E. Anakha et al.
Background/Objectives: Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have gained increasing attention in sport psychology due to their potential to enhance psychological well-being and performance-related outcomes among athletes. Despite various systematic reviews and meta-analyses examining mindfulness in athletic contexts, broader scoping evidence mapping randomised controlled trials (RCTs) of MBIs...
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September 4, 2026
Tuğba Özdemir
Background and Objectives: Yoga has been proposed as a supportive intervention to enhance mindfulness and reduce stress among nursing students, but evidence from mixed-method studies remains limited. This study aimed to examine the effects of a 12-week course-based yoga intervention on mindfulness and perceived stress and to explore students’ experiences of practicing yoga. Materials and...
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August 26, 2026
Mostafa A. Sayed Ali, Palanisamy Amirthalingam, Hanan Alshareef et al.
Background/Objectives: This study evaluated the real-world effectiveness and safety of intranasal esketamine plus oral antidepressants compared with venlafaxine-based oral antidepressant therapy in adults with moderate-to-severe treatment-resistant depression (TRD). Methods: This retrospective cohort study used electronic medical records from a mental health hospital between January 2023 and...
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July 2, 2026
Asrar Almutairi, Alya Alghamdi, Norah Mohammed Alyahya et al.
Background: While the consumer experience of psychosis has received significant attention in Western research, a substantial gap exists regarding the experiences of women in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). In this context, religious, cultural, familial, and gender-specific factors uniquely shape the experience of psychosis, help-seeking behaviors, and recovery. This study aimed to explore...
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July 2, 2026
Ana Leonor Couto, Daniel Humberto Pozza, Ricardo João Teixeira et al.
Background/Objectives: Medical students are frequently exposed to high levels of psychological stress due to demanding academic workloads and individual responsibilities. Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs) have been increasingly explored as strategies to improve mental well-being of this population. The objective of this systematic review is to evaluate the effects of MBIs on psychological...
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March 16, 2026
Julie K. Staples, Jesse Rice, Kathleen S. Farah et al.
Background/Objective: Mind–body programs teaching mindfulness-based techniques have benefits for incarcerated people, as do programs in which individuals teach yoga to their incarcerated peers. However, there are no studies of comprehensive programs that combine a variety of self-care techniques with group support and enable people in prison to enhance their own well-being and then share what...
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March 6, 2026
Fabio D’Antoni, Fabio Mattiussi, Cristiano Crescentini
2 citations
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) have shown promising effects across diverse areas of psychiatry, yet their specific role in bereavement remains insufficiently synthesized. Bereavement is a universal but heterogeneous process, with a minority of individuals at risk of developing prolonged grief disorder (PGD). Understanding the potential benefits of MBIs in this...
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March 3, 2026
Paul Lie, Titus Lie, Madeleine Nguyen et al.
1 citation
This narrative literature review explores the clinical use of Ketamine as part of an untested hypothetical model framework for bridge therapy for acute suicidality. Long-term suicide rates continue to increase in the United States and in many other countries, creating a pressing public health challenge with a variety of treatment considerations. Existing standard-of-care SSRI therapeutics have...
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February 27, 2026
Mădălina Sarca, Adriana Cojocaru, Raluca Dumache et al.
Background/Objectives: Mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and stress remain among the leading global causes of disability. Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs) have gained increasing attention as effective non-pharmacological strategies for reducing psychological distress. Methods: This systematic review examined 30 randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental...
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January 21, 2026
Emily Santos Montarroyos, Sara Lima, Raimundo Barreto et al.
Background/Objectives: Cancer is a disabling, challenging, and growing global disease. Although early diagnosis and adequate treatment of cancer are developing rapidly, a large part of the population remains without access to specialized services and routinely progresses to uncontrolled pain, poorer quality of life, and suffering. Complementary therapies for pain management and the well-being...
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December 8, 2025
Valerio Ricci, Stefania Chiappini, Giovanni Martinotti et al.
Objective: To scope the available literature on antipsychotic treatment in substance-induced psychotic disorders, summarize evidence across substance categories, and highlight priorities for future research. Methods: This scoping review followed Arksey and O’Malley’s framework and PRISMA-ScR guidelines. A systematic search of PubMed, Scopus, Embase, PsycINFO, and Cochrane Library (January...
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November 25, 2025
Matthew Furnell, William van Gordon, James Elander
Objectives: The majority of mindfulness research has focused on group-level effects, with limited attention to how engagement with specific meditation practices interacts with individual differences such as personality. This study examined whether Big Five traits moderated the effects of two mindfulness-based interventions (MBIs) on well-being and prosocial outcomes: one incorporating...
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September 12, 2025
Ariane Bélanger, Sue-Ling Chang, Jean-François Stephan et al.
1 citation
Background/Objectives: Given the limitations of traditional approaches to treating existential distress in seriously ill patients, psilocybin-assisted therapy (PAT) has emerged as a promising treatment option. However, weighing up the potential risks and benefits of this approach can be challenging for both healthcare professionals and patients. Decision aids can play a key role in supporting...
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May 16, 2025
Sean Matthew Viña
5 citations
Background: Structural inequalities in healthcare access may influence how individuals experience the psychological effects of psychedelic substances, potentially limiting positive outcomes among vulnerable populations. Objectives: This study uses data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (2008–2019; N = 484,732) to examine how public and private health insurance moderate the...
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October 1, 2024
Momoe Sakagami, Tomoe Yokono, H. Abeywickrama et al.
Background: Developing and cultivating mindfulness exerts a positive effect on psychological and cognitive performance. Sharpening the skill requires continuous mindfulness-based training (MT), which can be challenging for people leading busy lives. Therefore, the current study examined whether trait mindfulness can be improved by a flexible and brief MT program of self-breathing using a...
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June 1, 2023
E. Mousavi, Dena Sadeghi-Bahmani, Habibolah Khazaie et al.
Objectives: The aims of the present study were two-fold: to investigate whether, compared to an active control condition, a modified mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program could (1) reduce symptoms of stress and depression, and (2) regulate salivary cortisol and serum creatine kinase (CK) concentrations, two physiological stress markers. Methods: Thirty male wrestlers (Mage = 26.73...
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December 22, 2022
Maria Komariah, Kusman Ibrahim, Tuti Pahria et al.
74 citations
BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 outbreak has caused various changes in all aspects of human life, including the educational system. These changes have forced students to undertake an adaptive process that has inevitably affected aspects of their life and psychological well-being. Adaptation of learning into online forms in universities, including nursing, triggers depression, stress, and anxiety. The...
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August 16, 2022
Riccardo Bortoletto, Marco Colizzi
Being particularly vulnerable to the pro-psychotic effects of cannabinoid exposure, autism spectrum individuals present with an increased risk of psychosis, which may be passed on to their own children. More specifically, cannabis exposure among autism spectrum individuals seems to exert disruptive epigenetic effects that can be intergenerationally inherited in brain areas which play a critical...
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June 16, 2020
Chao Liu, Hao Chen, Chia-Yi Liu et al.
61 citations
Background: This study investigated: (1) the effects of the loving-kindness meditation (LKM) on mindfulness, subjective well-being (SWB), and spirituality and (2) the relationships between mindfulness, spirituality, and SWB. Methods: 98 flight attendants from Xiamen Airlines in China were recruited and randomly assigned to the LKM training group (n = 49) or the waiting control group (n = 49)....